The Cambridge Ancient History: Volume of plates, Volume 1At the University Press, 1927 - History, Ancient |
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AMPHORA Annual Brit archaic artistic Assyrian Athens Attic B.C. Photo Babylonian bowl British Museum Bronze Age bull CAHS Candia Museum Carchemish centre CENTURY TO 520 clay Cnossus coins columns Corinth Cretan Crete Cycladic decorated Delphi designs Early Helladic Early Minoan Egypt Egyptian Etruscan excavated faience figure figurines fragments FRESCO frieze geometric gold Greek head Height Heracles Hittite Ikhnaton illustrated inscription ivory king Late Helladic Late Minoan limestone lion Louvre Cat Mainland Melos Middle Helladic Middle Minoan Middle Minoan II Minoan Period Mochlos Mycenae National Museum neolithic ornament painted palace patterns Persian Photo Berlin Museum Phylakopi portrait pottery probably Ramses III relief represented rhyton Scale scene Scythian Scythic seal seventh century B.C. shape shows side sixth century B.C. Snake Goddess Stater statue statuette steatite STELE stone style temple terra-cotta Thessalian Period Thessaly Tiryns tomb vases ware wears
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Page 2 - In Eoanthropus Dawsoni we seem to have realised precisely such a being . . . , one, that is, which had already attained to human intelligence but had not yet wholly lost its ancestral jaws and fighting teeth.
Page xii - Three museums opened within 1 year of each other in the 1869-71 period — the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, and the Corcoran Gallery here in Washington. Senator REID. The Corcoran has been open a long time, hasn't it? Mr. BROWN. It has. It's one of the granddaddies. And, as a result, has a fabulous collection of American art because it got in on the ground floor and bought a lot of these canvases before they were...
Page 154 - ... of all these dignitaries to receive foreign ambassadors and to take over the gifts or tribute which they brought. The explanatory texts, especially those on the monument of Rekhmara, are quite definite : " Received the gifts of the . . . Keftiu," " Arrive and are welcome the envoys of the chiefs ... of Keftiu and of the Isles in the midst of the sea.
Page 170 - Crete well illustrate this transition from the light on dark to the dark on light technique during the period covered by the end of the Middle Minoan and the beginning of the Late Minoan age.
Page 312 - Beneath the divine symbol is a procession of captives roped together by their necks. A pair of attendants carrying the Royal spear and bow are behind the king.
Page 310 - Ephesus, who flourished towards the end of the sixth or early in the fifth century...
Page 318 - The Royal buildings stood upon a great artificial platform of which the retaining wall, like the buildings themselves, was constructed of marble-like limestone.
Page 322 - Royal body-guard, armed with spears, bows and quivers, and clad in yeIlow boots and long coats, bright with patterns of white, black, yellow and brown. The background is blue. [b] The Persian lions are more ' stocky,' their muscles rather more exaggerated than those which are familiar in Babylonian and Assyrian (cf . pp.
Page xiv - Haven (Ward, Cylinders and other Oriental Seals in the Library of JP Morgan).
Page 170 - One of these jars [a] shows a school of dolphins dashing through a belt of narrow water near rocks clouded with spray.